linux/fs/proc
David Howells 9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.

This patch does the following:

 (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
     support.

 (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
     an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:

     (*) Block I/O tracing.

     (*) Disk partition code.

     (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.

     (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
     	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
     	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.

     (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
     	 drivers.

     (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.

     (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
     	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.

 (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
     linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
     however, still used in places, and so is still available.

 (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
     parts of linux/fs.h.

 (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
     is not enabled.

 (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
     required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:

     (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).

 (*) Makes some /proc changes:

     (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.

     (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
     given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.

 (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.

 (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
     error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).

 (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
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array.c [PATCH] tty: stop the tty vanishing under procfs access 2006-09-29 09:18:16 -07:00
base.c [PATCH] fix mem_write() return value 2006-09-29 09:18:19 -07:00
generic.c [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode 2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
inode-alloc.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
inode.c Mark /proc MS_NOSUID and MS_NOEXEC 2006-07-15 12:20:05 -07:00
internal.h [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU 2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
kcore.c [PATCH] Kcore elf note namesz field fix 2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
kmsg.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore) 2005-06-25 16:24:53 -07:00
mmu.c [PATCH] fix impossible VmallocChunk 2005-05-17 07:59:10 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU 2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
proc_devtree.c [PATCH] powerpc: Cope with duplicate node & property names in /proc/device-tree 2006-03-28 16:45:23 +11:00
proc_misc.c [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6] 2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
proc_tty.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
root.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
task_mmu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place 2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
task_nommu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU 2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
vmcore.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00